Top 1200 Shortest Distance Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard him once confess that he sometimes thinks the distance is beyond him. He always jumps, Your Majesty. The Thieves are not trained in self-preservation. I beg you would take my advice.

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I think that distance is good for some people for certain projects. I mean this is sort of a dynamic question. Some projects require more distance than others, some don't require it at all. Sometimes you need it and sometimes you don't.

Yes, it is the Big Easy, home of the shortest hangover on the planet, where libation can greet you on Monday morning with the same smile as it did on Saturday night.

I've always enjoyed playing the shortest form of the game and I relish the opportunity to develop my leadership skills as England's Twenty20 captain.

I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

The 'how's' are the domain of the universe. It always knows the shortest, quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

I just say throw on your bathing suit or the shortest shorts you own regardless of your size and rock it.

I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.

A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.

The distance between yourself and another person is the same as the distance between yourself and yourself.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

The longest way round is the shortest way home

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary?

Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]